Washington, DC (RI) — Iowa Congresswoman Ashley Hinson says the recent arrest of a Chinese couple accused of smuggling a dangerous fungus into the country should be a wake-up call about the intentions of the Chinese Communist Party — and the danger TikTok poses.
Congress passed a law last year to ban TikTok, which is owned by a Chinese company, but President Trump has issued two executive orders to keep the ban from going into effect. Hinson, a Republican from Marion, says the Trump Administration should provide Congress with an update on negotiations with potential US investors.
Hinson is a member of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party. She says the Chinese are trying to exploit their access to America, and that includes a recent case in Michigan. A Chinese man is accused of trying to smuggle a fungus into the US that damages crops and sickens people and taking it to the University of Michigan lab where his girlfriend, also a Chinese national, worked.
Hinson says this case is an attempt by China to undermine American agriculture and the global food supply.
The Trump Administration has announced it will aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students to prevent the theft of US academic research and technology. The Institute for International Education estimates there were over 120 thousand graduate students from China enrolled at US universities last year.
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